Friday, July 31, 2009

Review - Disgust and Its Disorders

Review - Disgust and Its Disorders
Theory, Assessment, and Treatment Implications
by Bunmi O. Olatunji and Dean McKay (Editors)
American Psychological Association, 2008
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5026&cn=396

Review - Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies

Review - Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
by Lesley A. Sharp
Columbia University Press, 2008
Review by James Stacey Taylor, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5025&cn=135

Review - When Perfect Isn't Good Enough

Review - When Perfect Isn't Good Enough
Strategies for Coping With Perfectionism
by Martin M. Antony and Richard P. Swinson
New Harbinger, 2009
Review by Paul C. van Fenema, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5024&cn=399

Review - The Unwell Brain

Review - The Unwell Brain
Understanding the Psychobiology of Mental Health
by F. Scott Kraly
W.W. Norton, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5023&cn=392

Review - Chaosophy

Review - Chaosophy
Texts and Interviews 1972–1977
by Félix Guattari
Semiotext(e), 2008
Review by Andrew Aitken, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5022&cn=394

Review - In Freud's Tracks

Review - In Freud's Tracks
Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis
by Sergio Benvenuto and Anthony Molino (Editor)
Jason Aronson, 2008
Review by Rudy Oldeschulte
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5021&cn=395

Review - Unlearning or 'How NOT to Be Governed?'

Review - Unlearning or 'How NOT to Be Governed?'
by Nader N Chokr
Imprint Academic, 2009
Review by Ben Saunders, D.Phil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5020&cn=394

Review - Useful Bodies

Review - Useful Bodies
Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century
by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks (Editors)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Review by Fran Gillespie
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5019&cn=139

Review - The Sorrows of an American

Review - The Sorrows of an American
A Novel
by Siri Hustvedt
Picador, 2008
Review by Ralph Harrington, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5018&cn=140

Review - Hope's Boy

Review - Hope's Boy
A Memoir
by Andrew Bridge
Tantor Media, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5017&cn=391

Review - Live Through This

Review - Live Through This
A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
by Debra Gwartney
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5015&cn=391

Review - The Empathy Gap

Review - The Empathy Gap
Building Bridges to the Good Life and the Good Society
by J.D. Trout
Viking Adult, 2009
Review by Carlo Martini, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5012&cn=394

Review - Freedom and Value

Review - Freedom and Value
Freedom's Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value
by Ishtiyaque Haji
Springer, 2008
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5011&cn=394

Review - Psychological Agency

Review - Psychological Agency
Theory, Practice, and Culture
by Roger Frie (Editor)
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Jo Doran, M.F.A.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5009&cn=396

Review - The Woman Who Walked into the Sea

Review - The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
by Alice Wexler
Yale University Press, 2008
Review by Elizabeth McCardell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5008&cn=167

Review - Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Alzheimer's Disease

Review - Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Alzheimer's Disease
Detection and Diagnosis
by Jeffrey Burns and John Morris
Wiley, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5007&cn=139

Review - When Mothers Kill

Review - When Mothers Kill
Interviews from Prison
by Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer
NYU Press, 2008
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5006&cn=139

Review - Privacy

Review - Privacy
A Manifesto
by Wolfgang Sofsky
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Georg Koppen
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5005&cn=394

Review - In Bed with Madness

Review - In Bed with Madness
Trying to Make Sense in a World That Doesn't
by Yannis Andricopoulos
Imprint Academic, 2008
Review by Antti Kuusela, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5004&cn=139

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Review - What's So Wrong with Being Absolutely Right

Review - What's So Wrong with Being Absolutely Right
The Dangerous Nature of Dogmatic Belief
by Judy J. Johnson
Prometheus Books, 2009
Review by David Majorbanks
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4999&cn=139

Review - Try to Remember

Review - Try to Remember
Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind
by Paul R. McHughDana Press, 2008
Review by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4998&cn=139

Review - Thomas Kuhn's ""Linguistic Turn"" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism

Review - Thomas Kuhn's ""Linguistic Turn"" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
by Stefano Gattei
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Erich von Dietze, PhD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4997&cn=394

Review - Corpora in Language Acquisition Research

Review - Corpora in Language Acquisition Research
History, methods, perspectives
by Heike Behrens (Editor)
John Benjamins, 2008
Review by Christina Behme
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4996&cn=139

Review - Chasing the High

Review - Chasing the High
A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse
by Kyle Keegan and Howard Moss
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4995&cn=324

Review - Defining Moments in Science

Review - Defining Moments in Science
Over a Century of the Greatest Discoveries, Experiments, Inventions, People, Publications, and Events that Rocked the World
by Andrew Impey, Mark Steer and Hayley Birch (Editors)
Octopus Publishing, 2008
Review by Keith Harris, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4993&cn=139

Review - Value-Free Science?

Review - Value-Free Science?
Ideals and Illusion
by Harold Kincaid, John Dupré, and Alison Wylie (editors)
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4992&cn=394

Review - Hooked

Review - Hooked
Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
by Howard Brody
Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Review by Imre Szebik, MD. PhD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4991&cn=135

Review - Comedy Incarnate

Review - Comedy Incarnate
Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping
by Noël Carroll
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Review by Daniel Barnes, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4990&cn=394

Review - Death in the Classroom

Review - Death in the Classroom
Writing About Love and Loss
by Jeffrey Berman
State University of New York Press, 2009
Review by Joshua Gidding, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4987&cn=389

Review - Death and Character

Review - Death and Character
Further Reflections on Hume
by Annette C. Baier
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Michael Funk Deckard, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4986&cn=394

Review - Between Two Worlds

Review - Between Two Worlds
A Reading of Descartes's Meditations
by John Carriero
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Michael Pereira, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4985&cn=394

Review - Pretty Is What Changes

Review - Pretty Is What Changes
by Jessica Queller
Spiegel & Grau, 2008
Review by Jodi Forschmiedt
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4984&cn=139

Review - The Hedgehog's Dilemma

Review - The Hedgehog's Dilemma
A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal
by Hugh Warwick
Bloomsbury USA, 2008
Review by Mary Hrovat
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4983&cn=139